THOUSANDS of summer holiday plans have been plunged into doubt as French air traffic controllers plan yet more strike action.Workers have been walking out over salary freezes and changes to sick pay, leading to more than 100,000 delayed flights in May and June.Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary warned that thousands more flights could face disruption during the summer months if the next stage of walkouts go ahead.O’Leary said: “Many of these flights don’t even touch France, yet they will be disruptive because French ATC requires airlines to cancel overflights while they protect French domestic routes.“Europe’s ATC providers are approaching the point of meltdown.”Union representatives from Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Italy are also threatening Ryanair with a summer strike if demanded conditions are not met.Workers demand parenthood rights, doctor-approved sick days and the elimination of sales objectives.A spokesperson from airline claim company, Skycop, said representatives have warned that the leading airline has until July 3 to come up with a decision to change employment laws.The spokesperson said in a statement: “Cabin crews across Europe urge Ryanair to adopt national employment laws for all workers, but the carrier wants them to comply with Irish regulations.“Based on international laws, Ryanair has no right to put all of their staff under Irish jurisdiction.”Ryanair has now warned the EU to ‘take action’ over the upcoming French air traffic control strikes.Eurocontrol director general, Eamonn Brennan, said: “Europe is already struggling to cope with the levels of traffic this year.”A target delay, set out by the EU, is 0.5 minutes per flight. The forecast for 2018 is now heading towards 1.5 minutes per flight.

US intelligence states North Korea is making more nuclear bomb fuel despite talks

US intelligence agencies believe North Korea has increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months and may try to hide these while seeking concessions in nuclear talks with the United States, NBC news quoted US officials as saying.

In a report on Friday, the network said what it described as the latest US intelligence assessment appeared to go counter to sentiments expressed by President Donald Trump, who tweeted after an unprecedented June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that “there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.”

NBC quoted five unidentified US officials as saying that in recent months North Korea had stepped up production of enriched uranium for nuclear weapons, even as it engaged in diplomacy with the United States.

The network cited US officials as saying that the intelligence assessment concludes that North Korea has more than one secret nuclear site in addition to its known nuclear fuel production facility at Yongbyon.

“There is absolutely unequivocal evidence that they are trying to deceive the US,” NBC quoted one official as saying.

The area near the entrance to a tunnel at North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test facility, prior to its demolition.Credit: JUNGHO PARK/AFP

The CIA declined to comment on the NBC report. The State Department said it could not confirm it and did not comment on matters of intelligence. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

The NBC report raises further questions about North Korea’s readiness to enter serious negotiations about giving up a weapons program that now threatens the United States, in spite of Trump’s enthusiastic portrayal of the summit outcome.

NBC quoted one senior U.S. intelligence official as saying that North Korea’s decision ahead of the summit to suspend nuclear and missile tests was unexpected and the fact that the two sides were talking was a positive step.

However, he added: “Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles … We are watching closely.”

Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at California’s Middlebury Institute of International Studies, said there were two “bombshells” in the NBC report.

He said it had long been understood that North Korea had at least one undeclared facility to enrich nuclear fuel aside from Yongbyon.

Satellite images released of North Korea’s nuclear facilities prior to demolitions Credit: DigitalGlobe

“This assessment says there is more than one secret site. That means there are at least three, if not more sites,” he said.

Lewis said the report also implied that US intelligence had reporting to suggest North Korea did not intend to disclose one or more of the enrichment sites.

“Together, these two things would imply that North Korea intended to disclose some sites as part of the denuclearization process, while retaining others,” he said.

North Korea agreed at the summit to “work toward denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula,” but the joint statement signed by Kim and Trump gave no details on how or when Pyongyang might surrender its nuclear weapons.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week he would likely go back to North Korea before long to try to flesh out commitments made at the Trump-Kim meeting.

Ahead of the summit, North Korea rejected unilaterally abandoning an arsenal it has called an essential deterrent against US aggression.

Trump said last week North Korea was blowing up four of its big test sites and that a process of “total denuclearisation … has already started,” but officials said there had been no such evidence since the summit.

This week, Washington-based North Korean monitoring project 38 North said recent satellite imagery showed North Korea had made rapid improvements to facilities at Yongbyon since May 6, but it could not say if such work had continued after June 12.

well, noddy you and trump are two of a kind. trump the twat gets conned by Kim dick. and you think Trump is the best thing since sliced bread. boy oh boy, you yet again have egg all over your face.two twatts together.

MAN DIES FROM ROTTING FLESH DISEASE AFTER MAKING PASSENGERS ‘FAINT AND VOMIT’ ON FLIGHT FROM SPAINMedics believe he had begun to suffer from the condition while on holiday in SpainBy Laurence Dollimore (News Editor) – 28 Jun, 2018 @ 15:110 TRAGIC: Suchilin died from necrosis

A RUSSIAN guitarist has died from a flesh-eating disease after making fellow passengers vomit on a flight from Spain to Amsterdam. Andrey Suchilin made headlines around the world in May when his Transavia flight from Canary Islands was forced to make an emergency landing.It came after fellow passengers began fainting and vomiting due to his ‘unbearably’ bad smell.

It was believed Suchilin simply had poor hygiene, but it has transpired that he was suffering from a serious bacterial infection – necrosis – that caused part of his body to die.His flesh was literally rotting away, explaining why travellers described the smell as ‘worse than a rotting corpse’.He had been taken straight to hospital where medics confirmed he was suffering from gangrene, a form of necrosis, or premature tissue death, caused by a lack of blood and oxygen to the tissue. Medics believe he had begun to suffer from the condition while on holiday in Spain.

Suchilin slipped into a coma after two days and one month after being removed from the flight he died in hospital.Belgian passenger Piet van Haut said: “It was like he hadn’t washed himself for several weeks. Several passengers got sick and had to vomit.”Unwitting staff on the Transavia flight reportedly tried to quarantine him in a toilet of the Boeing 737 before the pilots decided to divert the flight.They landed in Faro, Portugal, so Suchilin could be removed.A Transavia spokesman confirmed at the time that ‘the aeroplane diverted because of medical reasons, but it is indeed right that he smelled quite a bit’.

The state of Israel is facing a catastrophic situation, which could, alarmingly soon, lead to extensive bloodshed. It is time for the international community to act decisively. Substantive external pressure – political, economic and cultural – offers the only chance of emerging from this impossible situation before it is too late. Not a sweeping BDS-style boycott of the country, but diverse, carefully crafted, acts of pressure.

. We are patriotic Israeli citizens who love our country and who contribute tirelessly to Israeli science and culture, and to that of the world at large. We fully intend to stay here and continue to contribute, but we are horrified by the situation and fear deeply for our lives and those of our offspring, and for the lives of the 13 million Jews and Arabs who live here and who have no other homeland

The decision to direct our plea to the outside world is not taken lightly, and we do so with a heavy heart. The pressure we believe is needed must come from governments and parliaments, of course, but also from civil society, individuals and establishments. Ever since 1967, not a single Israeli government has put a stop to the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank. Moreover, in recent years, the official and openly stated ideological policy of the elected Israeli government has it that this land, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan river, belongs in its entirety to the Jewish people, wherever they may be.

In the spirit of this ideology, the processes involving oppression, expulsion and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians living in the West Bank are broadening and deepening. This includes Jerusalem, too, which was annexed by Israel in 1967, and the borderlines of which extend almost from Bethlehem in the south to Ramallah in the north. Israeli courts are in the process of legitimising the destruction of entire villages, and the Knesset is passing new laws that steadily decrease the ability of the courts to have a say at all. Others legitimise the additional expropriation of private Palestinian land in favour of the settlements built on them. These acts of one-sided expropriation violate those parts of international law that protect civilians of occupied territories, and some are even in violation of Israeli law.

For years the international community has been talking about a solution based on separate Israeli and Palestinian states coexisting in peace and security. But current Israeli policy renders this impossible. During the 51 years of military rule on the West Bank, Israel has taken over large quantities of land, and has placed around 600,000 Israeli citizens there in hundreds of settlements. It supplies them with roads, water and electricity, has built and financed their health, education and cultural institutions, and has given them the same civil and political rights enjoyed by citizens residing within its sovereign territory.

In contrast, Israel is squeezing the living space of Palestinian residents, who enjoy no civil or political rights. With the aid of laws, special regulations and military orders it shuts them out of the areas it has allotted to its citizens and for its military training activities. It delineates and then expropriates their private and public land on the basis of rules it sets down for the sole benefit of its own citizens. It confines their villages by surrounding them with fences and barriers, destroys houses and refuses to allow them to expand; it imposes collective punishments, detains thousands of men, women and minors, tries them in a military court system and imprisons them in its sovereign territory.

Since all these actions are being carried out in violation of international law, the resulting situation is no longer just an internal Israeli issue. The institutions of the international community have taken many decisions intended to curb these actions, but none has ever been accompanied by enforcement mechanisms.

And so a destructive, violent and explosive reality is becoming the norm in these areas. We, who are located in the midst of this reality, believe the international community must help, since that community alone is responsible for enforcing compliance with its treaties and with the decisions of its institutions, and since in the current circumstances only it can do so.

Never have these issues been as clear cut and as urgent as they are today: if peace is not established in this part of the world very soon, an area that has become a timebomb of national and religious tensions, there will be no future and no life for us or the Palestinians.

• Ilana Hammerman is an Israeli writer and translator. David Harel is vice-president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

tomie jones says-OK noddy you are always saying that Israelis are the inovertors the mothers of invention. these self-same people are here who represent a group of intellectuals and cultural figures central to Israeli society, several of whom are world renowned in their fields. and they are saying enough is enough, read this article and you will realise that the core of Israeli society is against the Zionist Israeli jews and want peace, freedom, and an independent state alongside Israel for the Palestinians.

I PRESUME YOU REGARD THESE PEOPLE AS ANTI-SEMITIC MORONS, THAT SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND THROWN INTO JAIL BECAUSE THEY HAVE DARED TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE ZIONIST STATE OF ISRAEL .

THE TIDE IS TURNING AND I REALLY HOPE THAT I SEE PEACE HARMONY AND TWO STATES LIVING SIDE BY SIDE, PLEASE.

well, I am so glad you love having the royal family there in the heart of Israel wearing a kipper on his head and kissing the holy wall. For me, I AM LIKE THE TRUE IRISH MAN, A REPUBLICAN THROUGH AND THROUGH.So you are welcome to William and his wife ney the whole lot of the royal family from kent the fascist to Edward the closet gay, or horse Anne , or alleged paedophile Andrew, Charles the king that never was or will be .have them all mobo. Ah, but will the true blue Irishman want them. FUCK NO.

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Prince William prays at the Western Wall, the holiest Jewish site.

This photo below shows Prince William with Rabbi Mervis (on the princes left) the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth.

Rabbie Mervis is an old friend of mine, he was my mentor and teacher when he was Chief Rabbi of Ireland. He then moved to the UK and a few years ago he was made Chief Rabbi of Great Britain. I spent some time with him in London last year. a wonderful man, a gentleman and brilliant person.

MY GOD! THIS MAN’S EGO IS SURMOUNTABLE TALK ABOUT NAME DROPPING WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CHIEF RABBI, CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG BUT WERE YOU ( GOT TO LAUGH) A Rabbi. till you let your friend Richard tell you what to do. so disgraced rabbi? I really do not know. still, it is all fairy stories to me, religion who wants it I do not.

RETRACTION THE ABOVE STATEMENT WAS NOT POSTED ON ITALK FM. DUE TO THE INCOMPETENCE OF ME! WHICH I WILL RECTIFY AND I BET YOU 50 EUROS IT STILL DOES NOT GET POSTED.

I ALSO HAVE TO ISSUE AN APOLOGY FOR THE INCORRECT SPELLING OF KIPPAH THIS WAS DUE TO THE FACT THAT I AM NOT DISLECSICK BUT JUST ILLITERATE AND USE THE SPELL CHECK TO GIVE ME THE SPELLINGS OF WORDS THAT ARE IN DOUBT. SO WE GET KIPPER NOT KIPPAH, AH YOU SAY KIPPER I SAY KIPPAH THERE YOU GO OR VICER , VERSER.

SO DO NOT GET YOUR PRAYER ROLLS IN A TWIST, IT IS ALL ONE BIG JOKE ANYWAY.

REALLY? YOU OF ALL PEOPLE GETTING ON YOUR HIGH HORSE ABOUT RELIGION, WELL LET US JUST SAY THAT WHEN I MADE THE SAME SPELLING MISTAKE (KIPPER NOT KIPPAH) WITH REFERENCE TO THE POPE I DID GET A VERY FORCEFUL STORM OVER MY HOUSE, .SO YOU COULD BELIEVE GOD WAS ANGRY AND WAS SENDING A SIGN, YOU KNOW SORT OF SAYING FUCK OFF. I MEAN TO SAY THE CATHOLIC FAITH IS THE ONE TRUE FAITH IS IT NOT? BYEEE.

well, I am so glad you love having the royal family there in the heart of Israel wearing a kipper on his head and kissing the holy wall. For me, I AM LIKE THE TRUE IRISH MAN, A REPUBLICAN THROUGH AND THROUGH.So you are welcome to William and his wife ney the whole lot of the royal family from kent the fascist to Edward the closet gay, or horse Anne , or alleged paedophile Andrew, Charles the king that never was or will be .have them all mobo. Ah, but will the true blue Irishman want them. FUCK NO1

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Prince William prays at the Western Wall, the holiest Jewish site.

This photo below shows Prince William with Rabbi Mervis (on the princes left) the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth.

Rabbie Mervis is an old friend of mine, he was my mentor and teacher when he was Chief Rabbi of Ireland. He then moved to the UK and a few years ago he was made Chief Rabbi of Great Britain. I spent some time with him in London last year. a wonderful man, a gentleman and brilliant person.

MY GOD! THIS MAN’S EGO IS SURMOUNTABLE TALK ABOUT NAME DROPPING WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CHIEF RABBI, CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG BUT WERE YOU ( GOT TO LAUGH) A Rabbi. till you let your friend Richard tell you what to do. so disgraced rabbi? I really do not know. still, it is all fairy stories to me ,religionwho wants it i do not .

See the world through the eyes of society’s weakest members, and then tell anyone honestly that our societies are good, civilised, advanced, free.” Zygmunt Bauman.

Every Child Matters was Labour’s comprehensive and effective child welfare and protection policy that the Conservatives scrapped the day after they took office in 2010. The phrase “Every Child Matters” was immediately replaced with the phrase “helping children achieve more”. This reflects a fundmental change of emphasis from a rights-based society, for which both government and citizen share responsibility, to one where the individual is held solely responsible for their circumstances, regardless of structural conditions and the impact of political policies.

What was a “Children’s Plan” under the last Labour government is now a “free market education plan”, marking the Conservatives shift from free schools to “for profit” schools.